The La Conner School Board held a special meeting Monday that lived up to its name.

It was termed “special” because it opened with a walking tour of the campus.

What was truly special came next.

The members convened their first in-person meeting in a year – since the COVID-19 pandemic forced closure of schools statewide last March and led the board to conduct its public sessions on the Zoom tele-conferencing platform.

Masked and socially distanced, board members met in the district administration building to hear updates on La Conner’s superintendent search process and special education...